The ''Nordic Journal of Botany'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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of
botany
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, including the
plant ecology
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,
taxonomy
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,
evolution
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,
conservation
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, and
biogeography
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of
plant
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s,
algae
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,
bryophyte
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s, and
fungi
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. It originated from four botanical journals, ''
Botanisk Tidsskrift
''Botanisk Tidsskrift'' (standard abbreviation ''Bot. Tidsskr.'') was a Danish mixed scientific and amateur journal concerning botany, issued in Copenhagen by the Danish Botanical Society. It was published from 1866 to 1980, when it fused with ...
'', ''Friesia'', ''Norwegian Journal of Botany'', and ''
Botaniska Notiser
''Botaniska Notiser'' was a Swedish scientific journal, scientific periodical concerning botany, issued in Lund, by Societate botanica Lundensi or unds Botaniska Förening It was published from 1839 to 1980, when it fused with ''Botanisk Tidssk ...
'', that merged as one. Currently, the journal is published by
Wiley
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on behalf of the
Nordic Society Oikos
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(NSO) in collaboration with ''
Oikos
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'', ''
Journal of Avian Biology
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'', ''
Wildlife Biology
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'', ''Lindbergia'' and ''
Ecography
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''.
The
editor-in-chief
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s are Torbjörn Tyler (
Lund University
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) and Sara Cousins (
Stockholm University
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). According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 0.931, ranking it 200th out of 240 journals in the category "Plant Sciences".
See also
*
List of botany journals
The following is a list of notable botanical scientific journals.
General botany
The following table is a list of scientific journals publishing articles on many areas of botany.
Agronomy and horticulture
The following table is a list of ...
References
External links
Official website WileyOfficial website NSO
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1981
Botany journals
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